CVE-2001-0559

Published Aug 14, 2001

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description: crontab in Vixie cron 3.0.1 and earlier does not properly drop privileges after the failed parsing of a modification operation, which could allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges when an editor is called to correct the error.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.2
Impact score: 10
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:paul_vixie:vixie_cron:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "567FA639-2A18-4440-8877-82006D3363AA",
            "versionEndIncluding": "3.0.1"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References